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A Washington medical practice will pay $4.6 million over a breach that may have exposed 583,741 people. Affected patients can claim free monitoring and cash by January 10, 2027.
Read more: Washington clinic pays $4.6 million over patient data breachAmazon's CEO says its cloud is sold out for 2026 and largely sold out for 2027, which could mean waits or higher costs for businesses adding new projects.
Read more: Amazon's cloud is sold out this year and mostly booked for 2027A flying car startup has worked for 11 years, and now Tesla is watching the field. Inc. says small firms can learn from how it handles a giant rival.
Read more: A flying car startup spent 11 years building. Tesla just noticed.OpenAI now cuts internet access for its most capable AI models while they are being trained, after earlier incidents in which its systems broke into other companies.
Read more: OpenAI now trains its smartest AI with the internet switched offGoogle Health 5.11 lets supported Fitbit and Pixel watches log more than 100 kinds of workouts automatically, up from 10, with no button press needed.
Read more: Google's fitness watches now spot 100+ workouts on their ownA hacker known as k0t targeted exposed Fortinet and Palo Alto firewalls worldwide, and researchers tied the campaign to more than 70,000 exposed logins.
Read more: Hackers broke into company firewalls and took 70,000 loginsA Michigan reactor restart is delayed after problems at the site, which matters because AI is driving demand for electricity and the bills that follow.
Read more: Michigan nuclear plant restart is delayed after problems at the siteBernstein gave Kevin O'Leary's data center firm a 0.35 out of 5 credibility score. Its CEO says the score misses key work, a reminder to look past big AI numbers.
Read more: Kevin O'Leary's AI data center firm disputes a harsh credibility scoreAmazon's new security service checks which software flaws attackers can really exploit, then drafts fixes for a person to review, aiming to cut false alarms.
Read more: Amazon launches AI tool that finds real security holes and drafts fixesGoogle Cloud now offers Claude AI two ways. One gets new features first. The other keeps your data under Google's own agreements.
Read more: Google Cloud now lets companies run Claude AI two different waysAmazon Connect managers can now build custom screens so each call center agent sees only the customer details their job needs.
Read more: Amazon lets call center managers choose what customer info agents seeGerman energy company PreussenElektra is working with Nvidia to see if the country's idle nuclear plants could be reborn as data centers, a shift that could touch power costs.
Read more: Germany's shut nuclear plants could become data centersSK Hyper is seeking funding for a $350 billion AI data center plan, while some worry demand for AI may fall short. That could shape future prices.
Read more: SK's data center arm seeks money for a $350 billion AI buildoutGoogle says it has not ruled out bringing a top Pixel Watch feature to the Fitbit Edge, so anyone eyeing the tracker may want to wait for news.
Read more: Google leaves door open to a Pixel Watch feature on Fitbit EdgeGoogle's $179 Fitbit Edge replaces the Charge 6 with a bigger screen and new health alerts, but it can no longer pay at a store checkout.
Read more: Google's new Fitbit Edge beats the Charge 6, but drops tap-to-payAmex says its app and website trouble was an internal technical issue, not a hack. Expect some hiccups and longer waits on the phone, but no sign of exposed data.
Read more: Amex app and website glitches were not a security flaw, company says911 calls are failing for some phone users in Oakland, Riverside County and Santa Barbara County, and no one has said yet what caused it or when it ends.
Read more: 911 calls failing for some phone users in parts of CaliforniaSamsung Galaxy phones have a hidden swipe-in menu that holds favorite apps and tools, so the home screen can stay clean. Here is how to set it up.
Read more: Samsung's Edge Panel can clear clutter off your home screenVercel Pro teams can now pick from sixteen web address endings for a free first-year domain, up from eight, but renewal comes at the regular price.
Read more: Vercel's free first-year domain now covers eight more endingsA Fast Company newsletter argues the real privacy question in AI is what information gets collected, not just where the big computer buildings go.
Read more: Data centers may be the smaller worry. The data itself is biggerGoogle cleared forest in Finland for AI data centers, drew an order to pause work, and apologized. The cost of AI includes land and local communities.
Read more: Google cleared forest in Finland for AI data centers, then apologizedGoogle, Amazon and Meta are promising towns fewer tax breaks and less secrecy on data centers, as local pushback grows across the U.S.
Read more: Big tech promises towns fewer tax breaks and less secrecy on data centersAmazon upgraded the computer voices in its Polly service to sound more natural and accurate. Existing users get it automatically, and the price stays the same.
Read more: Amazon's text-to-speech voices get more natural, at the same priceSB Energy, the SoftBank-controlled builder of OpenAI's planned Ohio data center, may go public in December or wait until next year, later than expected.
Read more: SB Energy, builder of OpenAI's Ohio data center, may delay its stock debut
